Bell v HM Senior Coroner for South Yorkshire, King’s Bench Division (Administrative Court) 21 March 2023, [2023] 3 WLUK 342 Hot on the heels of his decision as part of the appellate bench in Dove[1] last week, comes another foray into the question of the extent of the scope of an inquest into a likely […]
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Dove v Assistant Coroner for Teesside [2023] EWCA Civ 289 In Middleton[1] the House of Lords considered that a coroner determining ‘how’ a person died in a non-Art 2 inquest need only determine ‘by what means’ they died and not the broad circumstances . But what does ‘by what means’ actually mean? The answer seems […]
Derek Winter DL, Deputy Chief Coroner of England and Wales, HM Senior Coroner for the City of Sunderland ‘A Day of Death Investigation’ 6pm – 7pm Thursday 30th March 2023, online on Zoom The University of Bolton Centre for Contemporary Coronial Law invites you to this online (Zoom) lecture delivered by Derek Winter DL, Deputy […]
The Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon has issued five ‘Prevention of Future Deaths’ (‘PFD’) reports (see here) calling for “root and branch reform” of firearms legislation and training following the shooting of seven innocent people by Jake Davison with a legally-held shotgun in Plymouth in 2021. The Senior Coroner, Mr Ian Arrow, […]
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R (Police Officer B50) v HM Coroner for East Yorkshire and Kingston Upon Hull [2023] EWHC 81 (Admin) This case raised two very different questions of ‘safety’. The first, to be decided by police firearms officers: A man was in the street carrying an axe and walking with purpose. Police were aware the man had […]
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